A55M0NKEY's Journal: Thoughts on Meta Moderation Etc

I try to metamoderate often, though I never read the articles or make any informed judgements. I just follow a simple rule:

If the post was moderated Funny, I metamoderate the moderation as Fair, since the fact that someone thought it was worth moderating must mean it was at least funny to one person even if I don't get the joke

It the post was moderated as Insightful, or Informative or Underrated, I leave the moderation unmetamoderated since I would have to think about whether the moderation was accurate and I would also have to read the post.

If the post was moderated as Troll, Overrated, Redundant, Flamebait, Offtopic etc, even 'Fist Posts', I metamoderate the moderation as Unfair since 90% of negative moderations do not enhance my slashdot reading experience, in fact they cause posters to edit out the controversial out of fear of losing too much karma. People who waste their metamoderation points on 'Fist posts' don't deserve moderation points anyway, and neither do spiteful jerks.

I only moderate positively when given points because highlighting good stuff is better than censoring the obviously ridiculous. If something is stupid, nobody needs me to tag it as such - I am sure they can figure out that for themselves.